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  I chose to read Jenks as a member of Rosie Ambers Book Review Team and had already bought a copy of it when it popped up on the list. You know that feeling you get when you open a new book, not knowing what to expect, and you read the first few lines and […]

  I chose to read the ARC of If She Wakes as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author. This does not alter my review in any way. I didn’t realise when I chose this book that it was a sequel. I wouldn’t usually read the second book […]

  I bought Sugar and Snails a long time ago but then other books got in the way so I was delighted to get a reminder of it when it appeared on the list for Rosie’s Book Review team and, as I am a member of that team, I happily moved it up my reading […]

  There are several things you know you’re going to get when you read one of Terry Tyler’s books: a terrific story, interesting well-rounded characters and great writing. The Visitor is no exception. It is particularly interesting to read her books now, while living through a pandemic, because they touch on things that we can […]

  Black Entry is a fictionalised account of Project Tiger, the CIA’s clandestine efforts to penetrate North Vietnam with indigenous (largely South Vietnamese) agent teams in the early 1960’s. There is a main character by the name of Jay Laird, nicknamed Jayhawk by his friends, and there’s a small cast of other characters around him […]

  I read Mary Smith’s No More Mulberries earlier this year and thoroughly enjoyed it so I was eager to get to Donkey Boy and Other Stories to see if I’d enjoy her short stories as much. I was not disappointed. Donkey Boy is a beautifully written story, set in Pakistan, of Ali, an eleven-year-old […]

  I chose to read Creation as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author although that doesn’t alter my review in any way. This book tells the tale of Odin waking up along with his two brothers, Vili and Vé, to find themselves Gods in a place that […]

    There is mystery after mystery in this Josie Jackson novel, the first, I believe, of a series. Who is the mysterious stranger in the lift? Why is estate agent Josie’s new client, Michael, so aloof? Why won’t her father talk to her direct? Josie has a rather privileged life living rent-free in the […]

  I chose to read Desire and Deceit as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author but this has not affected my review in any way. It is 1868 and the inhabitants of London are suffering a heatwave. Detective Inspector Leo Stride and Detective Sergeant Jack Cully are […]